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A Filament Across the Sun
This long, light feature is a solar filament, a cloud of charged hydrogen gas held above the Sun's surface by its magnetic field. Unlike Earth clouds, which are water droplets, a solar filament is extremely hot. It appears dark against the Sun's bright face because it is cooler than the photosphere behind it. This filament, captured in a color-inverted image, stretched across the Sun.
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In tropical astrology, 20 AUG 2012 falls under Leo (♌). The sign's window runs from 07-23 through 08-22. Leo is anchored by Regulus, the heart of the Lion, twenty-four parsecs from Earth. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 20 AUG 2012.